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Back to Episodes“EA sexual harassment: Where’s the evidence we’re worse than baseline?” by Nathan Young
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I used AI while writing this, though I have spent 5 - 15 hours on it and I take responsibility for every word and all numbers.
Every time there is a report of sexual harassment within EA there is a lot of introspection. I want to push back on this, not to dismiss the experiences described, which sound genuinely painful, but because I am unsure the evidence supports the belief that EA is uniquely bad here.
So what do we know? In 2022, CEA's Community Health team reported handling around 19 interpersonal harm cases the previous year, ranging from uncomfortable interactions to serious allegations, across a community of thousands. On my read, 3–6 of those 19 clearly involve sexual misconduct across a community of 4,700–10,000 EAs, putting a narrower rate at around 0.03–0.13%.
Alongside this there have been perhaps 3–5 high-profile public cases on the Forum in the last five years. The TIME piece in 2023 cited 7 women, though at the time it was disputed how clearly the cases related to EA. These data don't seem clearly outside of the above range.
The cleanest peer numbers come from universities' Title IX offices, which publish annual [...]
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First published:
May 21st, 2026
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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